OLD BRIDGE — The scene of terror inside the Old Bridge Pathmark was captured in the voices of workers who made emergency calls to police early on the morning on Aug. 31.

Police 911 tapes released today by Middlesex County authorities showed how a routine overnight shift at the Route 9 supermarket turned into carnage and fear.

"He started shooting from the parking lot. We all scattered," said one caller, who was panting on the phone as he spoke to police. The man said he was running across the parking lot from the store, with another co-worker.

The man said 15 or 16 workers were in the store when the shooting began.

"He's blowing the place apart. We all ran out of the store," the caller said. "His name's Terence. Please send as many people as possible please."

Two store employees, Cristina LoBrutto, 18, and Bryan Breen, 24, were killed in the rampage at the store. The alleged shooter, Terence Tyler, 23, a former Marine who had recently moved to Old Bridge, also killed himself with a handgun.

Tyler allegedly opened fire just before 4 a.m. on Aug. 31, after he left the store on break at 3:30 a.m., then came back dressed in fatigues and armed with the weapons.

"He's gone postal," one caller said.

The chilling 911 tapes, released by the Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office, include 50 minutes of calls, from numerous workers at the Pathmark. Some hid in a back room, some ran across the surrounding parking lots, and at least one was able to get in his car to escape.

The first call came in from a terrified woman locked in a back room at the Old Bridge Pathmark.

"There's a shooting here," she said in a call to police. "We're locked up.

"He was a young guy. He seemed very angry tonight. He didn't say anything to me, he walked right past me," said one caller who fled the store. "We thought he quit and walked out and then we heard a shot.

"There was a lot of gunfire," the caller said.

One caller was asked by a police dispatcher if he was safe.

"I don't know about safe, but I'm out of the store," the caller said.

Callers repeatedly asked police dispatchers for help.Some whispered into their cell phones, as if afraid to make any sound. Others called police as if asking for information about what was going on.

One called from a hiding spot in a back room, and said he heard the alarm ringing at the back door of the store.

"Somebody ran out the back door. But that was before 4 o'clock," the caller said. "When the back door opens, the alarm goes off. I should have ran out myself. But I hid."